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Around town- Saturday morning

As people in Fandom woke up, they might notice it looked slightly overcast. If they looked up, they'd see a large and imposing spaceship looming over the island.

Some people might be getting something like deja vu.

The ship had been brought by the Brood, who had come by the ship naturally. If by "naturally" you meant that they'd killed or overtaken the crew of the ship and were now using it. They'd come in search of one specific person and found an entire planet full of bodies they could use. Just wait until they figured out how many people in this one location had powers!

The Brood took to the island, not worrying about hiding. The Queens and their sleazoid troops wandered the streets to find anyone unlucky enough to be out, ready and willing to increase their numbers. Who didn't want to come across giant insectoids with terrifying venomous teeth and tentacles for stabbing?

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There wasn't really any hiding from the Brood. They found ways to find you if they really wanted to.

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Fred was on his way back from getting some breakfast. The coffee was just waking up his system, so it was just dawning on him that the overcast sky was actually a spaceship. That wasn't necessarily weird. Maybe that was a thing that happened. Then he turned a corner and saw an alien monster. And it was looking right at him.

In a moment of panic, Fred couldn't remember where his exploding boomerang was. A regular boomerang bounced off its head as he started backpedaling. A bladed boomerang stuck in its... snout? Whatever the hell. The third try was the charm as he tossed the exploding boomerang into the Brood's mouth when it was WAY TOO CLOSE.

The past four months, he had worn his supervillain boots every single day just in case one of the weird things people warned him about actually happened. And now that he was covered in exploded alien debris - and was probably going to attract more unexploded aliens because of the explosion - that decision paid off!

With a click of the heels, Fred shot off into the air, his jetboots propelling him toward the hotel. He was going to need SO MANY MORE BOOMERANGS if he was going to get through this! Fortunately, he had a terrifying number hidden away. Way more of them were exploding than he was going to admit to anyone in a position of authority, too.

Anakin had a baaad feeling about this as he arrived on the island and glanced up.

Call it an excess of caution, but he had his comlink out and in his hand in a blink. "Jaina? You wouldn't happen to be extremely busy at the moment?"

There was an alien spaceship floating above town, but as far as Pinkie could tell, it hadn't abducted anyone yet. So she was willing to give it the benefit of the doubt.

And sure, the creatures that probably came from the spaceship were super creepy looking with far too many legs (as opposed to humans, who were slightly creepy looking with their too few legs). But a central tenet of friendship was not to judge other people just by how they look. So Pinkie trotted on up to the first one she saw and stuck out a friendly hoof.

"Hiya!" she said. "I'm Pinkie Pie! What's your name?"

NPC for Pinkie to get her infected, please!

The Queen tilted her head a little. She'd seen (and brutally murdered) a lot of different species, but this was a new one.

"The Queen."

Brood were not big on individual names.

Ada had gone to JGoB fairly early in the morning, summoned by the lure of donuts fresh out of the oven. She was even being nice, and bringing a box back to the dorms to share with Cosima.

Except something didn't feel right, something wasn't right, and Ada paused. It looked overcast, but it didn't feel like it was going to rain. At all. She didn't have a headache, and her bones didn't hurt. She couldn't taste a single drop of moisture in clouds, so why was the light wrong?

So she looked up. And up. And started swearing when she realized that's no cloud.

She had to get out of here. She was only two blocks from the Trooper Station -- way closer than the dorms -- and it was probably open. Clutching the donut box to her chest, Ada took off through the park, opting for the direct route.

Some days, Ada really wished she had useful powers, instead of being a mermaid.

"Omigosh!" Pinkie gasped, then bowed low. Intercultural friendship worked best when you at least tried to follow their probable norms. It really helped cut down on accidental wars. "Greetings, your majesty. Welcome to Fandom!"

Edited 2016-04-23 15:22 (UTC)

NPC for infecting Ada por favor!

Edited 2016-04-23 15:23 (UTC)

This was a reaction no Brood was really used to. Partly because they really liked wars.

"We will overtake your world, use its people, and leave it in shambles."

Pinkie frowned. "We'd actually prefer that you . . . not do that."

She caught the eye of a Queen, who took off after her with relative ease.

"Where are you running to, little girl?" she asked, almost mocking.

Eliot opened his front door to see a raging alien insect beast thing standing on his stoop. It flailed its tentacles menacingly.

Eliot smiled.

"You have no idea how much I need this today."

He drove the thing back off his stoop with some well placed kicks, then darted back inside to grab his sword, which he'd taken to keeping in an umbrella stand in the front hall.

The alien screeched at him when he came back out. He screamed back and took its stabbing tentacle off with a single swing.

Oh yeah. This was exactly what he needed.

"We don't care," the Queen said, priming a giant stabby tentacle to look more menacing.

Pinkie pulled a hard hat out of nowhere and plopped it on her head. So . . . you know, her head was protected. "That is not very friendly."

This was exactly why she'd gotten eaten by a grue that one time.

The Queen backed that up by turning to stab Pinkie with the tentacle.

It'd only hurt for a minute. Then it would get interesting.

Pinkie hopped to one side, forewarned by her Pinkie-sense, and dodged the tentacle. It'd take a little more than that to get her. "So I get that you're not very interested in making friends," she said. "But I betcha I can change your miiii-iiiind!"

Kitty had noticed the weird darkness, and being her, phased outside to see what was causing it. And when she saw the ship, well...

She started through the town, not sure exactly what she was looking for, but she heard a scream and turned to towards the sounds... and there was a Brood Queen.

"God dammit," Kitty sighed, not feeling so great about this.

"I don't want friends. I want more Brood."

Just have her baby that you would take over your body and kill you, Pinkie. It wasn't like it was hard.

"There you are," said the Queen, coming towards her.

But Pinkie wasn't ready to be an expecting mother of a creepy matricidal alien! She was barely responsible enough to be considered a good foalsitter back home!

"Okay," Pinkie said. "I get that. You want to start a family! I never get between a mare and her reproductive choices. But friends can be super helpful in raising a family. Who else are you going to get to watch over your little one when you want a romantic night out with your very special somepony?"

"Not necessary. My 'little one' will be killing from the start." Starting with its host.

That wasn't very nice at all. "I'm pretty sure you're supposed to teach your foals not to do that."

Ada wasn't going to look at whatever was chasing her. She wasn't. That would only slow her down, and Ada couldn't afford that.

She put on an extra burst of speed, shedding the box of donuts even as her bones seemed to shift slightly under her skin, Ada's movements becoming more aerodynamic, more streamlined. "Just a jog," she said, not sounded winded in the slightest. "Are you going to race me to the Trooper Station?"

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